Tuberculosis studies
Solutions for Tuberculosis Humic and Fulvic Substances in Soil Remain Solutions for Tuberculosis An obscure and highly technical report from the U.S. government shows that there is a direct correlation between natural substances in soil (humus, humic, fulvic) and the absence of tuberculosis in humans. This report and many other studies reveal that certain humic extracts, particularly fulvic acids, contain a magnificently powerful spectrum of natural micronutrients, phytochemicals, antiviral and antibiotic-like agents that directly inhibit and destroy disease pathogens, while strengthening and regulating the immune system, increasing overall health. In the report, these extracts, although undetermined at the time, are described as being as potent as penicillin in equally small amounts.
"The present form of agriculture, to which our organic farming is opposed, leads to the ruin of the soil and of health and will ultimately cause the death of humanity." –Professor Louis Kervran
Professor Louis Kervran was French Minister of Health and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. In this report, a U.S. Government Information Circular from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Mines shows a direct correlation between coal miners' exposure to humic substances and their complete absence of tuberculosis. Old p Many scientists have shown that these various antipathogenic substances are produced by beneficial microbes common to humus-rich soils. The microbes concentrate and convert the higher plant matter forming soluble compounds (fulvic acids) that are readily transported to the roots of a new plant and throughout the plant, often accumulating in specific areas of the plant. The government report discusses the curious fact that a high concentration of still-living microbes was discovered scattered throughout the interior of all of the raw humic substances, with proportions, types, and species consistent with the various types of humates. Many of the strains of microbes were identified as belonging to the same families responsible for some of the pharmaceutical industry's best-known, newest, and most highly regarded drugs and antibiotics, which, interestingly, are all found in the healthy topsoil. Although the various studies included in the government report demonstrated that the scientists knew and identified the different species and types of microbes and were familiar with the antibiotic substances they produce, the powerful antipathogenic substances they managed to isolate from the humates could not be identified. The speculation is that these substances span the entire spectrum of known and yet-to-be-discovered antibiotics from nature. The isolated extracts of humic substances had activity comparable to or better than that of penicillin at similar or even higher dilution rates. The various studies demonstrated that in addition to preventing tuberculosis among the miners, the unique and varied disease-fighting substances were found to have activity against many other pathogens of human disease, and also against plant-pathogenic bacteria. Recent scientific research is gradually unraveling the mystery and is proving that one of the reasons why individual humic-related antibiotic substances are difficult to identify is because there is such an immense and diverse spectrum, which have been molecularly combined and also modified and inter-linked with each other. One area of immense interest that has been identified is the quinoid groups, which consist of quinonoids, quinolones, quinones, etc. Pharmacologists are discovering that these substances are some of the most powerful antibiotics in existence and that some of them strengthen and improve overall health by increasing resistance to disease. Quinoid groups are very common in high-quality humic extracts, especially certain fulvic acids.
References: U.S. Department of the Interior: Bureau of Mines, Information Circular 8075, Microbiology of Coal, Martin H. Rogoff, Irving Wender, Robert B. Anderson, 1959. Coal Miners’ Pneumoconiosis, W.D. Evans, Coll. Ing., vol. 27, 1951, pp. 513-518 Antibacterial Substances in Seeds, L. Ferenczy, Nature, vol. 178, 1956, pp. 639-640 Raphanin, an Antibacterial Principle of Radish, G.Y. Ivanovics and I. Horvath, Nature, vol. 160, 1947, pp. 297-298 Antibiotic Substances from the Heartwood of Thuja plicata III. The Constitution of g-Thujaplicin, J. Gripenberg, Acta Chem. Scandinavica, vol. 2, 1948, pp. 639-643 Humic, Fulvic, and Microbial Balance: Organic Conditioning of Soil, William R. Jackson, PhD., 1993, Jackson Research Center, Evergreen, CO. Pay Dirt; Ingrid Wickelgren; Popular Science, March 1996
